Amid fracking boom, unlicensed middlemen often closing the deals - Reuters Investigates (11:28)
Drilling companies are hiring and dispatching brokers to cut deals with local land owners for their mineral rights. The mission of these so-called “land men”: Close the deal quickly. Reuters travelled to Carroll County, Ohio, to find out more about this unregulated aspect of the hydraulic fracturing boom. (Oct. 2, 2012)
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